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corporate raider
noun
- a person who seizes control of a company, as by secretly buying stock and gathering proxies.
corporate raider
noun
- finance a person or organization that acquires a substantial holding of the shares of a company in order to take it over or to force its management to act in a desired way
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Word History and Origins
Origin of corporate raider1
First recorded in 1985–90
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Example Sentences
Icahn never liked—actually viscerally hated—the term corporate raider.
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